Keywords
contemporary literature, dialectics, power roles, Argentine literature, Samanta Schweblin
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El amo y su mascota: La concepción del deseo panóptico y la inversión de roles de poder en Kentukis de Samanta Schweblin. (2025). Cuadernos De Literatura, 29. https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.cl29.amcd
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Abstract
This paper offers a reflective analysis of the power roles surrounding the characters in Samanta Schweblin's novel, "Kentukis." It begins by complicating the Hegelian dialectic of master and slave by including the panoptic gaze, proposed by Michel Foucault, in the relationship between the master and the technological pet called "Kentuki." Under this precept, a gaze-seduction-desire-enjoyment relationship ultimately explores the various ways in which desire, when contained within a panopticon, ultimately denies the other's enjoyment
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